The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1887-02-24
A LESSON WITH a MORAL.

When viii Our Eyes be Opened to this Great IA.
tional Calsnity.
The year 1886 played sad havoc
with many prominent men of our
country.
Many of them died without warn.
Ing, passing away apparently in the
full flush of life.
Others were sick but acomparative-
ly short time. We turn to our files and
are astonished to find that most of
them died of apoplexy, of paralysis,
OF nervous prostration, of malignant
blood humor, of Bright's disease, Of
heart disease, of kidney disease, of
rheumatism or of pneumonia.
1t is singular that most of our
prominent men die of these disorders.
Any journalist who watches the tele-
graph reports, will be astonished at
the number OF prominent victims OF
these disorders.
Many statements have appeared in
our paper with others to the effect
that the diseases that carried off so
many prominent men in 1886, are
really one disease, taking different
names according to the location of
the fatal effects.
When a valuable horse perishes, it
becomes the nine days talk of the
sporting world, and yet thousands of
ordinary horses are dying every day,
their aggregate loss is enormous, and
yet their death creates no comment.
So it is with individuals. The
cause OF death of prominent men
creates comment, especially when it
can be shown that one unsupported
disease carries tfmost OF them and yet
"vast numbers OF ordinary men and
women die before their time every
year from the same cause"
1t is said if the blood is kept free
from uric acid, that heart disease,
parai ysis, nervous prostration, pneu-
monia, rheumatism, and many cases of
consumption, would never be known.
This uric acid, we are told, is the
waste of the system, and it is the
duty OF the kidneys to remove this
waste.
We are told that if the kidneys are
maintained in perfect health, the uric,
acid is kept out OF the blood, and
these sudden and universal diseases
caused by uric acid will, in large
inca sure disappear.
But how shall this be done? 1t is
folly to treat effects. If there is any
known way of getting at the cause,
that way should be known tothe pub
lie. We believe that Warmers safe
cure, of which so much has been writ.
ten, and so much talked OF by the
public generally, is now recognized by
impartial physicians and the public
as the one specific for such diseases.
Because public attention has been
directed to this great remedy by means
of advertising, some persons have not
believed in the remedy. We cannot
see how Mr.. Warner could immediate-
ly benefit the public in any other way,
and his valuable specific should not
be condemned because some nostrums
have come before the public in the,
same way, any more than that all
doctors should be condemned because
so many OF them are incompetent.
1t is astonishing what good opin-
ions you hear on every side OF that
great remedy, and public opinion thus
based upon an actual experience, has
all the weight and Importance OF abso-
lutte truth.
At this time Of the year, the uric acid
in the blood invites pneumonia and
rheumatism, and there is not q man
who does not dread these monsters of
disease; but he need have no fear OF
them we are told, if he rid the blood OF
the uric acid cause.
These words are strong, and may
sound like an advertisement, and be re.
jected by unthinking people, but we
believe they are the truth, and as such
should be spoken by every truth-lov-
ing newspaper.